TripAdvisor Reviews Dean Creek Resort Redway

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When a family member tells you they are building ANYTHING and could use some help.....RUN!!!!!!! Let's just say the best laid plans of mice or Dave and Debbie usually have some kind of fly in the ointment. Stopped to visit for a weekend and ended up staying for ten days to help out family by building a barn and separate shade structure for a horse and ended up smack dab in the middle of a bunch of crazy ...

Landed in Redway after going through the Leggett California fire zone.....Nasty, nasty, nasty air. Things are so dry I'm surprised the entire state isn't on fire but going through this smoke zone was enough for me. Visiting one of my two favorite sister-in-laws for the weekend and come to find out she needs a barn built for her horse on the back of her property and she needs ...

... but it would occasionally turn its head and alien face towards us before looking away again. It was so cool!

Back down at the main path we found 'Big Tree'. This one is 359 foot high, measured back in 1957, so it has most likely grown even more since then (they can grow 25 foot in 50 years). Very dwarfing gazing up at the sheer height and volume of it. I would like to plant some in cities next to skyscrapers. Next to Big Tree there was ...

... br> The drive north into the park along the coast takes you through a large part of the redwood forest. We didn’t get to drive through any trees, but we did see the biggest trees we had ever seen before. They are the tallest living things on earth. And they do not disappoint. The campsite was one of the best sites we had on the entire trip. After some confusion as to how to actually secure a campsite, we arrived at the beach where the ...

... pretty cool though, you actually cross from Washington state into Oregon part way across the bridge. We had a little drive around Astoria to find a grocery store and it seems like a really pretty little town. I would've liked to explore it a bit more, but we're booked into an RV park in LA from Friday so we've decided to just drive, drive, drive and then hang out at the beach for a week once we get there, instead of stretching the trip out a bit more! After stopping in at Safeway ...